"To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter……" — Robert Sternberg
"To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them."
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28 Quotes by Robert Sternberg
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Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these…
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There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.
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ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And…
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The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to…
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I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing…
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There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
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And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you…
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If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this…
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I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll…
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So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the…
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